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Bishop Stephen of Antioch into sharpened reeds by his own clergy, outside the same city, having entered into the synaxis of the holy forty, in the place called Barlae, as a Nestorian; and his remains were thrown into the Orontes river. And learning of this, the emperor Zeno made another bishop and patriarch named Calendion in the same city of Antioch of Syria; and he too was exiled, as a Nestorian; and Bishop Peter was recalled from exile by the same emperor Zeno, at the request of the people and clergy of Antioch; and having come from Euchaïta, he became patriarch again and died on his own throne in Antioch. And during the reign of Zeno, he appointed by arrangements and made Caesar the son of Armatus the magister militum praesentalis, named Basiliscus; and Basiliscus sat together with the same Zeno in the hippodrome watching, and the emperor and the Caesar honored the charioteers. But Zeno, reasoning that Armatus the magister militum praesentalis, the father of the Caesar, had perjured himself, having sworn at holy baptism to the emperor Basiliscus not to betray him, and having been urged by me he betrayed 382 him and he died, said, "how will he keep faith with my reign? For in a little while, if his son the Caesar becomes a man, he will certainly transgress against me also; but I did not transgress against him, but I also made him a patrician and magister militum in his place and his son a Caesar;" therefore he ordered Armatus to be slain, as a perjurer, and he was slain, as he was going up by the Decimum to watch in the hippodrome. And after Armatus was killed, he ordained his son Basiliscus the Caesar, who was a child, as bishop in Cyzicus, the metropolis of Hellespontus. And during his reign the Samaritans in Palestine rebelled and crowned a robber-chief named Justasas, a Samaritan; and he entered Caesarea and watched the hippodrome and murdered many Christians while Porphyrius was governor of Palaestina Prima. The same Justasas burned the church of Saint Procopius when Timothy was bishop of Caesarea. And the dux of Palestine, Asclepiades, coming with his own force, and the lestodioktes Rheges, an official of Caesarea with the Arcadiani, setting out against him, joined battle with him and captured him; and they beheaded the same Justasas, and his head with the diadem was sent to the emperor Zeno. And immediately the emperor Zeno made their synagogue which was 383 on Mount Garizim into a prayer house of the holy Theotokos Mary, also renewing the church of Saint Procopius, and making a law that no Samaritan should serve in the army, and confiscating the property of their wealthy; and order was established. And during his reign Theoderic the ex-consul, son of Valamir, who was raised and educated in Constantinople, being magister militum praesentalis and having seen what Armatus had suffered, fearing the emperor Zeno, took his own force and went out from Constantinople, going towards Salabria on account of the numeri stationed there. And rebelling, he took all of Thrace; and he came against the emperor Zeno as far as Sycae, opposite Constantinople, also cutting the city's aqueduct. And after spending many days, and not being able to harm the emperor, he withdrew from there, setting out for Rome, at that time held by Odoacer, king of the barbarians. And warring against him with the approval and treachery of the senate of Rome, he took the same Rome and Odoacer the king without a fight; and he murdered him and took possession of Rome, becoming king in his place in it for 47 years. and afterwards he was reconciled with the emperor Zeno, and everything he did was with his approval, and the consuls

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ἐπίσκοπος Στέφανος Ἀντιοχείας εἰς καλάμια ὀξυνθέντα ὑπὸ τοῦ κλήρου τοῦ ἰδίου, ἔξω τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως εἰσελθὼν εἰς τὴν σύναξιν τῶν ἁγίων τεσσαράκοντα, εἰς τὰ λεγόμενα Βαρλαῆ, ὡς Νεστοριανός· καὶ ἐῤῥίφη τὸ λείψανον αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν Ὀρόντην ποταμόν. καὶ μαθὼν Ζήνων ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐποίησεν ἐπίσκοπον καὶ πατριάρχην ἄλλον ὀνόματι Καλανδίωνα ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ Ἀντιοχέων πόλει τῆς Συρίας· καὶ ἐξωρίσθη καὶ αὐτός, ὡς Νεστοριανός· καὶ ἀνεκλήθη ὑπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ζήνωνος βασιλέως ὁ ἐπίσκοπος Πέτρος ἐκ τῆς ἐξορίας, τοῦ δήμου τῶν Ἀντιοχέων αἰτησάντων καὶ τοῦ κλήρου· καὶ ἐλθὼν ἀπὸ Εὐχαΐτων ἐγένετο πάλιν πατριάρχης καὶ ἀπέθανεν εἰς τὸν ἴδιον αὐτοῦ θρόνον ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς τοῦ Ζήνωνος βασιλείας προεχειρίσθη παρ' αὐτοῦ κατὰ συντάξεις καὶ ἐγένετο Καῖσαρ ὁ υἱὸς Ἀρμάτου τοῦ στρατηλάτου πραισέντου ὀνόματι Βασιλίσκος· καὶ συνεκάθητο τῷ αὐτῷ Ζήνωνι Βασιλίσκος εἰς τὸ ἱππικὸν θεωροῦντι, καὶ ἐτίμα τοὺς ἡνιόχους ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ ὁ Καῖσαρ. ὁ δὲ Ζήνων λογισάμενος ὅτι ἐπιώρκησεν Ἀρμᾶτος ὁ στρατηλάτης τοῦ πραισέντου, ὁ πατὴρ τοῦ Καίσαρος, ἐπομοσάμενος εἰς τὸ ἅγιον βάπτισμα Βασιλίσκῳ τῷ βασιλεῖ μὴ προδοῦναι αὐτόν, καὶ προτραπεὶς παρ' ἐμοῦ προέδω 382 κεν αὐτὸν καὶ ἀπέθανεν, πῶς τῇ ἐμῇ, φησί, βασιλείᾳ πιστὰ φυλάξει; μικρὸν γάρ, ἐὰν ἀνδρωθῇ ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ὁ Καῖσαρ, πάντως καὶ ἐμὲ παραβαίνει· ἐγὼ δὲ οὐ παρέβην αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὸν ἐποίησα ἐπὶ τόπῳ πατρίκιον καὶ στρατηλάτην καὶ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ Καίσαρα· ἐκέλευσεν οὖν σφαγῆναι τὸν Ἀρμᾶτον, ὡς ἐπίορκον, καὶ ἐσφάγη, ὡς ἀνέρχεται κατὰ τὸ ∆έκιμον εἰς τὸ ἱππικὸν θεωρῆσαι. καὶ μετὰ τὸ φονευθῆναι Ἀρμᾶτον τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ Βασιλίσκον τὸν Καίσαρα παιδίον ὄντα ἐχειροτόνησεν ἐπίσκοπον ἐν Κυζίκῳ τῇ μητροπόλει τῆς Ἑλλησπόντου. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας τυραννήσαντες οἱ Σαμαρεῖται ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ ἔστεψαν λῄσταρχον ὀνόματι Ἰουστασὰν Σαμαρείτην· καὶ εἰσῆλθεν ἐν Καισαρείᾳ καὶ ἐθεώρησεν ἱππικὸν καὶ ἐφόνευσε πολλοὺς χριστιανοὺς ἡγεμονεύοντος τῆς πρώτης Παλαιστίνης Πορφυρίου. ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Ἰουστασὰς ἔκαυσε τὸν ἅγιον Προκόπιον ἐπὶ Τιμοθέου ἐπισκόπου Καισαρείας. καὶ ἐλθὼν ὁ δοὺξ Παλαιστίνης Ἀσκληπιάδης μετὰ τῆς αὐτοῦ βοηθείας καὶ ὁ λῃστοδιώκτης Ῥήγης, ὁ ἀξιωματικὸς Καισαρείας μετὰ τῶν Ἀρκαδιακῶν, ὁρμήσαντες κατ' αὐτοῦ συνέβαλον αὐτῷ καὶ παρέλαβον αὐτόν· καὶ ἀπεκεφάλισαν τὸν αὐτὸν Ἰουστασάν, καὶ ἐπέμφθη ἡ κεφαλὴ αὐτοῦ μετὰ τοῦ διαδήματος τῷ βασιλεῖ Ζήνωνι. καὶ εὐθέως ὁ βασιλεὺς Ζήνων ἐποίησε τὴν συναγωγὴν αὐτῶν τὴν οὖ 383 σαν εἰς τὸ Γαργαζὶ ὄρος εὐκτήριον οἶκον τῆς ἁγίας θεοτόκου Μαρίας, ἀνανεώσας καὶ τὸν ἅγιον Προκόπιον, ποιήσας διάταξιν μὴ στρατεύεσθαι Σαμαρείτην, δημεύσας καὶ τοὺς εὐπόρους αὐτῶν· καὶ ἐγένετο κατάστασις. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας Θευδερίχος ὁ ἀπὸ ὑπάτων, ὁ υἱὸς Οὐαλέμερος, ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει ἀνατραφεὶς καὶ ἀναγνούς, στρατηλάτης ὢν πραισέντου καὶ ἑωρακὼς τί ὑπέστη Ἀρμᾶτος, φοβηθεὶς τὸν βασιλέα Ζήνωνα, ἔλαβε τὴν ἰδίαν βοήθειαν καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ἀπὸ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, ἐπὶ Σαλαβρίαν ἀπιὼν διὰ τοὺς ἐκεῖ καθεζομένους ἀριθμούς. καὶ τυραννήσας παρέλαβε τὴν Θρᾴκην πᾶσαν· καὶ ἦλθε κατὰ τοῦ βασιλέως Ζήνωνος ἕως Συκῶν πέραν κατέναντι Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, κόψας καὶ τὸν ἀγωγὸν τῆς πόλεως. καὶ ποιήσας ἡμέρας πολλάς, καὶ μὴ δυνηθεὶς βλάψαι τὸν βασιλέα, ἀνεχώρησεν ἐκεῖθεν ὁρμήσας ἐπὶ τὴν Ῥώμην, τότε κατεχομένην ὑπὸ τοῦ Ὀδοάκρου, ῥηγὸς τῶν βαρβάρων. καὶ πολεμήσας αὐτῷ κατὰ γνώμην καὶ προδοσίαν τῆς συγκλήτου Ῥώμης, παρέλαβεν ἀνεπηρεάστως τὴν αὐτὴν Ῥώμην καὶ τὸν Ὀδοάκρον ῥῆγα· καὶ ἐφόνευσεν αὐτὸν καὶ κατέσχε τῆς Ῥώμης, γενόμενος ἀντ' αὐτοῦ ῥὴξ ἐν αὐτῇ ἔτη μζʹ. καὶ ἐφιλιώθη Ζήνωνι μετὰ ταῦτα τῷ βασιλεῖ, καὶ πάντα ὅσα ἔπραττε κατὰ γνώμην αὐτοῦ, καὶ τοὺς ὑπάτους